Hello my friends!  Here's a short video that I made featuring my LEGO Clone Trooper as it learns how to jump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aip4QtNK1f8

I think I have figured out the technical hurdles in doing stop-motion and can now concentrate on some serious animations.  This is still not a proper LEGO film with a story, but I wanted to test out some techniques.  I used a rig that I made out of LEGO parts to elevate and support the mini-fig during the jump and used Photoshop to edit it the rig out.  I kept the latter part of the jump un-edited so I can show where the rig was.

Please let me know what you think!  Thanks for viewing!